C174 A Deadly Surprise

CASSANDRA

Cassandra was watching the night through her bedroom window, arms crossed, her expression closed off. The wind lightly swayed the heavy curtains, but she didn’t even blink. She had been there for hours, inert, like a statue carved in ice.

On the outside, she was the controlled matriarch of the Halley family.

Inside… she was a woman on the verge of collapse.

Richard